SSMF grant supports study of metabolic health and brain ageing April 7, 2026 / Metabolic Syndrome Dementia / Brain Aging Research / Cardiometabolic Risk Factors / Cognitive Decline Prevention / Neuroimaging Biomarkers A funded study will investigate how metabolic syndrome...

Cold-induced metabolic flexibility explains ethnic disparities among individuals with obesity and insulin resistance April 6, 2026 / Cold-Induced Thermogenesis / Metabolic Flexibility / Insulin Resistance / Ethnic Differences Metabolism / Brown Adipose Tissue Cold-induced thermogenesis reveals ethnic differences in metabolic...

The life cycle of metabolism March 23, 2026 / Metabolism Across Lifespan / Epigenetics and Metabolic Health / Obesity and Diabetes Risk Factors / Early Life Metabolic Programming / Lifestyle and Metabolic Disease Prevention Metabolism evolves across the lifespan, influenced...

Metabolically Healthy Child Obesity Still Raises Cardiometabolic Risk March 28, 2026 / Childhood obesity / Cardiometabolic risk / Type 2 diabetes / Hypertension / Pediatric health Childhood metabolically healthy obesity is associated with increased long-term risk of type 2 diabetes,...

Romboutsia ilealis related metabolite OAA controls obesity and lipid metabolism through PSMD3-mediated degradation of YTHDF2 March 17, 2026 / Gut Microbiome Obesity Mechanisms / Romboutsia ilealis Metabolic Regulation / Intestinal Lipid Absorption Pathways / PSMD3 YTHDF2 Signaling Axis / Microbiome...

Hyperinsulinaemia as a cause of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases March 9, 2026 / Hyperinsulinaemia / Obesity Pathophysiology / Cardiometabolic Disease / Insulin Resistance / Metabolic Health Chronic basal hyperinsulinaemia may independently drive adiposity and cardiometabolic disease beyond normal postprandial insulin...

Obesity as a catalyst for neurodegeneration February 27, 2026 / Obesity and Neurodegeneration / Chronic Metabolic Overload / Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction / Neurovascular Coupling / Cognitive Decline Midlife obesity is increasingly linked to neurodegeneration through brain-wide metabolic, vascular, and neural...

Genetic determinants of BMI, diet, and fitness interact to partially explain anthropometric obesity traits but not the metabolic consequences of obesity in men and women February 20, 2026 / Polygenic Risk Score / Precision Nutrition / Metabolic Syndrome / Obesity...

Oral bacteria may signal metabolic health and even contribute to obesity Distinct oral microbiome signatures in obesity show altered sugar fermentation, increased lactate production, and inflammatory pathways, correlating with triglycerides and metabolic markers, suggesting saliva-based microbial profiling may serve as...

Characterization of jejunal enteroids in human obesity; a model for studying GLP-1 cells February 9, 2026 / GLP-1 secretion / human jejunal enteroids / obesity and type 2 diabetes / enteroendocrine cell dysfunction / metabolic disease models Human jejunal enteroids...